Village Idiot

It's a bit choosing the tallest of a tribe of pygmies, but Gil and Delph were both actually good today. The team as a whole should be doing better than this.

Yeah, hated it when he left Barça. What's more aggravating is seeing him play well while we have a gigantic hole at RB.

Fair enough then, the highlights might have been misleading. Made it look like you were just more clinical.

I don't know how the f*** they managed that, like. Same bloke who edited North Korea's World Cup win over Brazil? As I said, I didn't watch the game, but whoscored has Krul with 7 saves, which is a lot more than your average.

I didn't watch the game but the highlights they showed in Spain made Krul look one of the better players. Not that great a sign. Still, Carver is certainly more positive than Pardew. That alone is nice enough to go by.

Love how his two attacking signings have been two strikers above 1.90, and then shoved Gayle to the wing.

Loved these quotes before the game myself: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/422878/Crystal-Palace-Alan-Pardew-Everton-unfair-Europa-League

Unsurprisingly, the game's been shit so far.

Pity the bottom three look so utterly hopeless.

Pity the lad, to be honest, every time he seems to be getting back on track, this happens.

Gotta say, Everton look pretty bad out there.

Man, I was this close to transfering Eriksen in yesterday. Don't have enough money now since he's increased in price

I'm not conceding yet

When was the last time you won by 3 goals or more? I recall Cardiff at home last year.

Ouch. I have done another unwittingly arseholish post, haven't I?

Barça one is pretty meh. They could have used a variation of the old badge - which is not trademarked - instead of just an old-timey football.

Better start updating the trophy count if reserve games are now official FIFA competitions. You've won a few IIRC.

"Anti-Chelsea campaign"

I'm not sure Wenger does either.

I got Jones and Monreal, both seem to be playing regularly now and are quite cheap.

Last season he was ok until he got injured around Christmas. He never got going after that. Best thing of all is that all my Real Madrid friends used to joke about him and the money we spent, now they don't.

He's been great this season, Wednesday's was also his first "I'm going to boss this s***" performance too.

Pulled the trigger on the January WC since I had so many injuries and suspensions. I'm happy with what I have now, but it will be hard to make room for Costa again once he comes back. Fabregas, Sánchez, Hazard, Eriksen, Downing midfield looks yummy though. Agüero, Kane, Defoe upfront and some dross at the back.

Interesting analysis on possession and defensive organization over at whoscored.com. Did I tell you that I love whoscored? http://www.whoscored.com/Articles/plpokotdzkux62-ythvngg/Show/Team-Focus-Analysing-the-Correlation-Between-Possession-Defensive-Organisation Also, fun nugget: They'll be the most dangerous team in Europe under Pards.

Truth be said, there's been loads of "Bernabéu to be renamed XXXXX" news in the past year, and none has come to pass yet. I'm sure they'll do it, eventually (and we will probably follow suit to fund the renovation of Camp Nou), but I'd take this with a grain of salt.